Monday, 11 May 2009

Many more Australians are now obese. - So what's new? Whilever the 'experts' continue to give the wrong advice, obesity will continue to increase.

Obesity is not caused by over-eating. - You know that already if you think about it. - You see lots of slim people eating like there's no tomorrow and they don't put weight on, so clearly eating too much is not the cause of the 'obesity epidemic'.

Obesity is caused by a combination of salt sensitivity and salt intake. - Only people who are sensitive to salt become fat/overweight/obese. This happens because for them, salt is very harmful: it holds excess water in their bodies. This is often called fluid retention or oedema. The veins swell and the skin gets thinner as it stretches to accommodate the swollen veins.

Reducing calories does not help with these problems. It is irrelevant to them. - Reducing salt is what helps. - By eating less salt and salty food you can easily and swiftly lose some of the excess water and thus lose weight - a lot of weight, since water is heavy. Unfortunately, dieting, by which I mean eating fewer calories than the body requires, tends to cause weight gain, since it weakens the walls of the veins even more, making them thinner and more accommodatng to extra fluid retention.